Willy's Wonderland Now Has A Video Game (& It's Nothing Like Five Nights At Freddy's)

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The Nic Cage-led movie now has its own video game, but it's nothing like the games thought to inspire. The 2021 movie appeared to share a similar premise to the popular franchise — although its filmmaker, G.O Parsons, stated any similarities were purely coincidental, and it was inspired by restaurants such as Chuck E. Cheese, with the original idea coming about in 2015 just before the first game was released — but with one key difference: Nic Cage's mute janitor could fight back against the deadly animatronic creatures that thought they were hunting him, resulting in an array of violent carnage.

Brazilian developer QUByte Interactive has adapted the premise into a 2.5D side-scrolling beat 'em up title. In the new game, players can take control of either The Janitor or Liv, a teenager set on burning down the animal-themed restaurant, or team up in local co-op to play as both. While all of the animatronics from the film do appear, such as Tito Turtle, Siren Sara, Arty Alligator, Cammy Chameleon, and Willy Weasel, they will also be commanding further hordes of evil beings for the humans to fight.

Five Nights at Freddy's has many different characters across the games, including a few with distinct personalities matching to a zodiac sign.

As the movie and game departed from the series by having its human protagonist able to hold their own against the animatronic threats, it makes sense that its tie-in game would do the same. Whereas the original games were point-and-click survival titles in which players would assume the role of a night security guard who would use monitors to figure out where the killer animatronics could attack from, this wouldn't have made much sense in the world of.

's Janitor would explore the restaurant more freely while doing their job and restoring it to its former glory. He didn't serve the role of security, so he would take his breaks playing pinball and drinking sodas — and, at one point, bursting into dance — instead. Therefore, the idea